Category: Word of the Day – J

Word of the Day: JARGOGLE

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin;
possibly a confused extension of jargon (n.)

EXAMPLE
“…Whether all you say have any thing more in it than this, I appeal to my readers: and should willingly do it to you, did not I fear, that the jumbling of those good and plausible words in your head, “of sufficient evidence, consider as one ought,” &c. might a little jargogle your thoughts, and lead you hoodwinked the round of your own beaten circle…”

From: The Works of John Locke
Vol. 5 Four Letters concerning Toleration
A Third Letter for Toleration
By John Locke, 1692

Word of the Day: JOLIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from joly, jolie (jolly) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…Wantoun and blyith, and euer geuin to sport,
And efter drink desyrous of comfort:
Iocund with Ioy, and Iolyous to Iaip,
With mockis and mowis of nature as the Aip.
And he that hes the nature of the fyre,
Is euer hait, in crabitnes, and Ire…”

From: Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venus
– John Rolland, 1575

Word of the Day: JINGLE-BRAINS

ETYMOLOGY
– from jingle + brains

EXAMPLE
“…We left these Jingle Brains to their Crotchets , and proceeded to the West end of the Cathedral , where we past by abundance of Apples, Nuts, and GingerBread, till we came to a melancholly Multitude , drawn into a Circle , giving very serious Attention to a blind Ballad-singer who was mournfully setting forth the wonderful Usefulness…”

From: The London-spy Compleat, in Eighteen Parts,
Edward Ward, 1718